The youngest ever global title holder has had a hard time this year, but hopes for better in May, when he meets Magnus Carlsen in Norway Chess at Oslo, and in the autumn, when he defends his crown India’s Gukesh Dommaraju, at 19 the youngest ever world champion, has had...
Messi and Inter Miami were wallpaper for Trump’s whims in their White House visit
The US president welcomed the 2025 MLS Cup champions in a ceremony beset by tangents and awkward asides Nine minutes and 43 seconds. As Inter Miami’s players stood behind the dais at the East Room in the White House with club owner Jorge Mas stood to the left and Lionel...
Igor Tudor enacts ghostly role in the most stupid of hires with Tottenham too bad to stay up | Barney Ronay
The problem here is not the interim manager, it’s the ad hoc interim ownership and the short-term sense of identity at this ghost town club Tudor is to do. To do is to dur. Something like that anyway. With the clock reading 45+8 at the end of the first half...
Aston Martin fear they may not be able to compete in Australian GP after practice disaster
Team have two battery units with no replacements Alonso and Stroll completed only limited runs in practice Aston Martin’s disastrous start to the new Formula One season grew even worse after free practice in Australia with the team principal, Adrian Newey, revealing there were now fears they would not be...
FA Cup fifth round: things to look out for this weekend
Garnacho gets his chance to stake a claim, a big day for Port Vale and more scheduling concerns for Guardiola Who would have thought approaching mid-March Wolves would be the Midlands team – at least in the Premier League – with the most to cheer? Aston Villa, while fourth and...
‘Toughest’ Italy Test can be defining moment for England, says Jamie George
‘Lack of hard work’ has undermined Borthwick’s squad England off to Rome after successive Six Nations defeats Jamie George is braced for England’s “toughest ever” Test against Italy but believes Saturday’s Six Nations clash can be the defining moment for a much-maligned squad. George also admitted England’s Six Nations collapse,...
Football’s converging moral panics hold up a mirror to our fractured world | Jonathan Liew
From grappling at corners to VAR, the endless list of complaints reflects a wider sense of dislocation from ‘the product’ A terrible boredom stalks the land. Across the nation’s television studios and podcast armchairs, wearied men grizzle accursedly with forked tongues into branded microphones: entombed by a game they despise...
Harry Brook backs ‘awesome’ England to find a way past India into T20 World Cup final
Captain hails team ‘unity’ before Mumbai semi-final Jamie Overton expected to return to England XI England have abandoned their pursuit of perfection as they plot a path to victory over India and a place in the T20 World Cup final but Harry Brook remains confident they can beat any opponent....
Curling stones worth £750 stolen from Cortina venue before Winter Paralympics
Theft of two stones in Italy being investigated Mixed doubles wheelchair event started on Wednesday The theft of two curling stones due to be used at the Milano Cortina Winter Paralympics is being investigated, World Curling has confirmed. Action in Italy got under way on Wednesday night with the round...
Finn Allen’s record ton blasts New Zealand past South Africa into T20 World Cup final
New Zealand, 173-1, bt South Africa, 169-8, by 9 wkts Black Caps opener Allen blasts 100 not out from 33 balls South Africa won every match they could afford to lose in this tournament and then lost the first one that they had to win. They were completely marmalised by...